4/29/2011

Engg admission to begin by May-end

The consortium of 11 Catholic engineering colleges in Kerala will take only the score of the students in the engineering entrance examination (KEAM-2011),  along with Plus Two/Class XII marks  to prepare the ranklist for admission to their engineering seats. They will ignore the ranks released by the CEE by June 25.

The Commissioner of Entrance Examination (CEE) is expected to release the score of candidates in the engineering entrance along with medical entrance ranks before May 25.  The engineering rank will be decided by the CEE by giving 50 percent weightage to entrance score and 50 percent weightage to the qualifying examination mark, using statistical methods of mean and standard deviation.

It is reliably learnt that Catholic engineering colleges will go it alone in the admission to their BTech courses this time also without signing any agreement with either the present or the new government.  Moreover they wouldn't effect any hike in their fees. A fee of Rs 75, 000 per year and a refundable deposit of Rs 1 lakh was charged by the Catholic engineering colleges for each BTech seat last year and the same will be applicable this year too for 85 percent seats. However 10 seats in each college will be given to Below Poverty Line (BPL) students as 100 per cent scholarship (free). The rest 15 percent will be NRI quota.  There is a one time development fee of $6000 and and normal fee for NRI candidates. Bishop Jerome Institutions, Kollam is the new addition to the Catholic engineering colleges.

The other existing colleges are:
1 Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirappally.
2.Jyothi College of Engineering, Cheruthuruthy
3.Marian College of Engineering, Kazhakkoottam
4.Lourde Matha College of Science and Technology, Trivandrum
5.Mar Baselios College of Engineering, Nalanchira, Trivandrum
6.Rajagiri School of Engineering  and Technology, Kakkanad, Ernakulam
7.Viswajyothi College of Engineering and Technology, Muvattupuzha
8.St Joseph College of Engineering and Technology, Pala
9. Sahrudaya College of Engineering, Kodakara, Thrissur
10.Vimal Jyothi College of Engineering, Chemperi, Kannur

The Catholic engineering colleges do not expect any hurdles from the side of admission supervisory committee, the Justice P A Muhammed Committee, in its admission process. They have submitted their prospectus for the approval of the committee and are yet to hear anything from the committee. Last year the committee did not interfere with Catholic engineering college admission and with no change in the admission conditions, the consortium does not expect any hurdles from the committee. In the case of medical admission, the committee had issued directions to the Christian managements and hence they went to court and secured a favourable verdict. Since no such situation is existing related to engineering admission, the Catholic colleges have not gone to court so far.

Meanwhile it is understood that the Kerala Self Fiancing Engineering College Managements Association (KSFECMA) established by GPC Nayar representing 73 engineering colleges, is moving towards signing an agreement with the next government for seat-sharing, as was done last year. There will not be any fee hike and there is expected to be no change in the conditions either, an association leader said.

However they are considering making admission to the management seats on the basis of the entrance score and qualifying examination marks as is done by the Christian managements, to avoid delay, since the ranklist prepared by the CEE would be out only by June 25. However no final decision has been taken on this.

Last year there was a tuition fee of Rs 35,000 and a caution deposit of Rs 10,000 in merit seats in the SF engineering colleges coming under KSFECMA. This was effected in their 50 percent seats after the organisation entered into an agreement with the State Government.

Accordingly Rs 99,000 was fixed as annual tuition fee for each management seat and Rs 25,000 to be paid annually as workshop charges apart from a refundable interest-free deposit of Rs 1,50,000. The management seat quota was fixed as 35 percent.

The fee for 15 percent NRI quota was put at Rs 1.5 lakh plus 25,000 workshop charges and Rs 1.5 lakh refundable interest-free deposit. This year too this is expected to continue since the association has not asked for any hike.

The member colleges of KSFECMA can be visited at http://ksfecma.com/Default.aspx

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